I've been using samba for some time to do this, but I have never been able to create/modify/delete files between my linux and windows computers. Read-only access is all that happens, no matter what I put in my smb.conf file or what kind of file permissions I set.

I suppose this should be a relatively easy problem to fix, but it's all beyond me. I've read countless tutorials on how to properly set up samba but it seems to me that they all take a different approach.

Could anyone point me in the right direction? Maybe a samba tutorial that you've tested and had success with? Keep in mind that my ultimate goal is to be able to create/modify/delete files between computers. I'm using ubuntu 8.04 desktop edition and good ol' windows xp.

Also, on a bit of a different note, would using the server edition of ubuntu help in any way? Does the server edition have some other filesharing system that's easier to configure?

I can't speak for SAMBA configuration as I don't use currently use SAMBA on my network.

As far as using Ubuntu Server, you wouldn't see any benefit to settting up SAMBA. It'll be the same type of configuration for SAMBA. The difference between Ubuntu Server and regular ol' Ubuntu is simply that Ubuntu comes with lots of nice little extras that are welcome on a home desktop. Ubuntu Server, like any other minimal Linux install, comes with.... a kernel, BASH, and APT. That's about it. Everything else from network services, to word processors, Gnome to that tetris-like game, you have to install your self. This is nice if you know what you want/need, but for most, having the full install of Ubuntu is much easier and nicer.

I'm able to access and modify my shares from my windows computers. I have no idea why it wasn't working before, but I set the global security setting to "SHARE" and I wonder if that had anything to do with it.

Basically what I'm going for with this ubuntu box is a place to send backups to as well as run an apache web server. I figure that if the root of apache is pointed at a shared folder, I can just chuck files into that folder from a windows computer and then they'd be available online.

I've been using PCLinuxOS for almost a year now. I use ROOT account only and always, though they say its dangerous. But for almost a year now -- i have FULL CONTROL of everything, especially with SAMBA...

All I do is click on the Places -> Network, then our 2 other PC running winXP will just show up (all the partitions), I can transfer / delete / rename / create folder, etc.

Using root only is a very bad idea. You know that it is a bad idea, so I'm not sure why you are asking.

You can run across a freeway and not get hurt ... heck, you can do that every day for a year and not get hurt ... but that doesn't make it any less dangerous or stupid.

There is not reason NOT to use a user-level account for day-to-day use of your PC. You can easily log into root for administrative duties and then log back out again when you're back to surfing the web or playing games.

Everything's working satisfactorily, and last night I began doing backups from some various xp machines to the server.

The only limitation I've found so far is that if an xp user creates a file on the server, the server user cannot modify that file, but can access, delete, rename, etc. That doesn't really limit what I'm trying to. Since my xp machines aren't entering a passwd to connect to the server, I'm guessing they're getting in as guests, and therefore their files belong to "nobody".

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